!! You will only be doing the last point my team is doing the rest!! In the beginning it was supposed to be another paper though she changed it to a presentation so I will need a couple slides and speaker notes.
Answer some or all of these questions in a narrative format. Address them in any order that makes a smooth-flowing paper (not in coresponding bullet points):
• What type of processes do you think your company is using to produce the specific products you are focusing on?
• Job Shop, Batch, Repetitive, Continuous
• State the rationale that supports your selection / assumption
• What are the key components and who are the critical suppliers and where are these suppliers located? You can speculate on location, or cite as a country if you cannot confirm. What risks might be in these relationships or what should the company do to ensure that the relationship stays strong?
• What might be the key elements to check on your product, and how might those be checked – attribute or variable data, can it be done as an in-line check or does it need to be done in a lab or off-line location? How would that help ensure the quality of the final product?
• In reference to the strategies you included in Paper #1 (push / pull, build to stock / order, etc) what type of inventory is most critical to your company, why, and do you have any ideas for optimizing the business?
• Address where in the supply chain the key inventories are located, and how they help fulfill customer demand, and help the company create the supply to meet the demand.
• Much of this may not be verifiable, so use your insights to speculate.
